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Angel / nineflystudying:
media theory + psychologymini-bio: Book blogger and semi-professional graphic designer, I enjoy reading all kinds of books and ranting on about them afterwords. I apologize for not being much of a social person, but I try to reply to all response-seeking comments =)

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could not finish2 umbrella:☂☂☂☂☂
at least it tried3 umbrella:☂☂☂☂☂
not amazing, but not bad4 umbrella:☂☂☂☂☂
well worth your time5 umbrella:☂☂☂☂☂
definite shelf-keeper

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my personal favourites, regardless of rating 8D

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

A monthly meme where I post about movies I've recently watched and ones I'm dying to see. I'll do a mini ★ review for each movie I've seen, and express in ♥s how excited I am for trailers of movies soon to be released. See all of my movie reviews here.

Recent Screenings: 2Anticipated Screenings: 2

Recent Screenings

The Lightning Thief (2010) ★★ - theatremini-review: wow, there are no words to how cheesy and horrible this movie was; sure, it's got a rather pretty cast and CGI, but the pacing was choppy, the dialogue was lame, and the acting was WAY melodramatic; I don't get why the Greek gods are in America (WTF Olympus in Empire State Building???), why Persephone is a slut, why her pearls are owned by ppl like Medusa (are they hinting at them being lovers?); that last scene with Medusa's head reeked SO MUCH of abuse of power and chills me at how cruel children can be; heard Grover was MADE INTO the token black guy, and worse, into the "eager-to-please sidekick who is DESPERATE for female attention" next to the white main character who gets the girl by his ~*Many Manly Merits*~ UGH

X-Men 3: The Last Stand (2006) ★★★mini-review: better action scenes, better CGI; speedoflight!pacing, random!deaths, abrupt!dis/appearances, horrible!romance (Wolverine/Jean is still the most random thing ever)...some good set-up scenes where there are debates about being a minority, accepting it, or hating the majority, etc., but by the end they COMPLETELY disregard the "abuse of power" theme; on the other hand, YAY PORCUPINE ASIAN GUY! YAY INVISIBLE ASIAN GIRL! YAY PRETTY SHOCKWAVE GIRL! Storm grows a personality! Kitty is smart! I like Jean's hair!...not enough Wolverine/Rogue friendly fluff though =(

finished Alfie (and Sherlock Holmes) recently and I'm pretty interested in seeing more of Jude Law 8D british accents! happy-go-lucky assassins! lots of gore! I'll enjoy this for the view, though I'm quite interested in the plot as well

tentative for now, but I did love Robin Hood stories when I was younger...the rock music in the trailer made me LOL though, so inappropriate XD;

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Based on your review of The Lightning Thief you haven't read the book, so let me tell you now that the book is SO MUCH BETTTER. There was a reason that the protagonist is twelve in the book. Don't let the sucky movie stop you from reading an amazing series!